Disable Horizontal Scrolling to UITextView Programmatically

Question

I\'m looking for a way to disable horizontal scrolling of a UITextView programmatically, it was easy via the Interface Builder, but since I\'m designing the view programmati

Answer 1

With custom insets i found the best solution for me is to subclass the UITextView and then in the layoutSubviews call the following code.

-(void) layoutSubviews
{
    // always keep content offset at x = 0
    self.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, self.contentOffset.y );
    [super layoutSubviews];
}

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

Just to add a bit here, that "tiny bit of scrolling left and right" even after you disable horizontal scrolling is caused by the ContentInsets. The following disables that:

self.textView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(5, 0, 5, 0);

Answer 3

This should help... UITextView is a subclass of UIScrollView, so this is pretty easy to implement.

mytextView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(mytextView.frame.size.height,mytextView.contentSize.height);

mytextView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;